What you are saying is entirely true but there are plenty of Walmart type jobs and yet almost none of them are offering 3 day work weeks. I feel the jobs where its possible should be offering it. But like I said it won't happen short of ending immigration, a major war or plague etc which re-balances the labour market so companies actually start caring about what employees want.
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Interesting concept....in that vein yea it would be smart for a large company to do that with their common labor, it would offer incentive to employment and would be easier to attract people which value their jobs.
Hmmm, that's a nice little hook.
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If the resources and technology advancements of the west were invested back into our own people, instead of fighting endless wars for Israel, protecting shipping lanes for the satanic elites to offshore jobs, and instead of babysitting the third world, which causes their population to boom way beyond what they can feed, this would be a much more real possibility.
I figured this would be the place to put this - why should I hustle?
I have 50k in savings, not 401k, actual cash sitting around and own my own home in a “cool” part of town. Only pay 1000 / mo. No kids no responsibilities except a student loan. Once I nuke that, which I’m 17k away from, why hustle?
I turn it down at work. Focus more on exercise, learning other languages, prayer… why am I hustling and worried about the 6? If you have a wife and kids I get it, but if you have no wife and kids, why are we doing this? You can door dash some pennies quite easily. You can work a menial job if you bought your home early. Why?
Counter arguments I get: Retire
Retire? To what? I have no kids and I guarantee you once the last boomer dies, those 401ks are getting nationalized or inflated away. The anti rich rhetoric is too strong and we’re flooding our country with people who think like this.
No gal will want you. No one likes a bum.
Honestly, I don’t see it. Bums get all the girls. Especially if I worked out and was at the gym all the time and I have a house for them to live in. Rents are high. But as you can see … my religious tag. My faith is a huge obstacle to me getting jacked, swiping right, and using 0 rent and bills to keep em. Besides they don’t want me anyway making money.
Why should I hustle?!?
I have 50k in savings, not 401k, actual cash sitting around and own my own home in a “cool” part of town. Only pay 1000 / mo. No kids no responsibilities except a student loan. Once I nuke that, which I’m 17k away from, why hustle?
I turn it down at work. Focus more on exercise, learning other languages, prayer… why am I hustling and worried about the 6? If you have a wife and kids I get it, but if you have no wife and kids, why are we doing this? You can door dash some pennies quite easily. You can work a menial job if you bought your home early. Why?
Counter arguments I get: Retire
Retire? To what? I have no kids and I guarantee you once the last boomer dies, those 401ks are getting nationalized or inflated away. The anti rich rhetoric is too strong and we’re flooding our country with people who think like this.
No gal will want you. No one likes a bum.
Honestly, I don’t see it. Bums get all the girls. Especially if I worked out and was at the gym all the time and I have a house for them to live in. Rents are high. But as you can see … my religious tag. My faith is a huge obstacle to me getting jacked, swiping right, and using 0 rent and bills to keep em. Besides they don’t want me anyway making money.
Why should I hustle?!?
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The Atlas Shrugged theory is coming real. I can't give you a good reason to hustle, this country offers little to no future, why not just enjoy your life and focus on what you want.
I just thought of one, get enough cash to build my icon corner past the savings. Literal Monk mode.
It’s interesting you bring that book up. If “lay down flat” came to America maybe we could make our voices heard.
The only reason I still hustle is because I am very close to retiring and I am just pushing it out. If I was 20 years younger, I don't know if I could sell hustling to myself.
I think right now, the best thing to do is find something you enjoy and learn to live off that income. And that will probably mean a lot of lean days, but that might still be better than stuck in a gray cube, staring at a blue screen, in a torture office for 45 years. To each their own.
The reason to hustle is to retire early to another country. You could invest your $50,000 into bitcoin and keep stacking more bitcoin every month for a few years. In a few years time with the bitcoin gains and money from renting out your house you can retire overseas to a cheaper country and get a lifestyle upgrade and more importantly find a worthwhile woman for a long term relationship with which you won’t find in the west.
People who hussle don’t retire early. They hussle their whole life, it’s just part of who they are. They may try to retire, but given a month 2 they are back doing consulting, starting a new business etc. The only people I’ve seen who change from a lazy/content man to a hussler, are betas who are pushed hard by their domineering GF or spouse.
What’s stopping me now? https://pra.gov.ph/SRRVisa If the dollar doesn’t crash, next year I turn 35 and can qualify for the early retirement visa. Put that 50k in a Filipino index fund that pays dividends. I just need to figure out how to make money off the internet over there.
I’m going to be honest, I don’t trust BTC, it’s way overvalued. I’d keep that in fiat in case of job loss or something. Even if I did trust BTC, how do you buy small amounts of it? I don’t think BTC nickels and dimes are a thing.
Second what if we have a dollar crash? We’d be trapped in America. This will be an impossibility. When the dollar crashes, that 1 peso = 0.018 dollars will be More like 1 peso = 0.35 dollars. Maybe I should get in on investing before 35 to protect my dollar. Picture this, if the dollar crashes at the scale above my 50k just became 86100k. Any information on foreign investing on the smaller scale?
Trying to retire with 50k at age 35 is a fool's errand. Find some sort of work that you can take pride in and that provides value to other people. Let go of this scarcity mindset that tells you, "I need XXXX dollars to retire so that I never have to work again!" and instead ask yourself, "What skills, knowledge and abilities do I have (or can I acquire) that other people or businesses would pay me for?" Stop thinking about work as something terrible to be avoided, and start thinking about it as a way to utilize your God-given abilities to provide value to the world.
Most people spend their lives running away from difficult things, which is why they end up fat, poor, lazy, fearful and stupid. Conversely, the people who embrace challenge and difficulty are invariably the ones who reap most of the rewards in life, because nothing good ever comes easy.
Most people spend their lives running away from difficult things, which is why they end up fat, poor, lazy, fearful and stupid. Conversely, the people who embrace challenge and difficulty are invariably the ones who reap most of the rewards in life, because nothing good ever comes easy.
If your work isn't your cherished hobby then the biggest issues for me are being "on the clock", "on call" and "supervised". On the clock means showing up somewhere every day at the same time. On call means working holidays, weekends or just working OT because "business is booming". Supervised means someone making sure they're getting maximum output from you.
If you can eliminate those 3 your work-life balance/happiness will improve dramatically. Reasoning being "repeated endless tasks while suffering indignity" is about unnatural as it gets.
The only way to do so is to do contract/gig work.
If you can eliminate those 3 your work-life balance/happiness will improve dramatically. Reasoning being "repeated endless tasks while suffering indignity" is about unnatural as it gets.
The only way to do so is to do contract/gig work.
Yup, and the only bad part of what I do is the risk aspect to it, otherwise it'd be easier - but the woman thing is a big issue, since the isolation thing and social taboo of age gaps is all time bad and especially in the west.
I just told a friend today, I'm more than happy to focus on investments now, analysis of markets and world events, and various other hobbies that have to do with risk - also having plenty of free time to work out 3-4 times a week, walk around the block, take naps. I don't think it'll get "boring" honestly. I could be wrong, but I doubt it.
Maybe you missed the part where he said his house is paid off. If he moved overseas he could rent out his house. I don’t know where he lives but even if that nets him $1000 per month after expenses and taxes that could be enough to be retired in some of the cheaper countries and whatever his other investments make is gravy on top.
Also it’s not the 1950s anymore most jobs suck. Low wages relative to cost of living (unless you have a top 10% job) with weak unions and poor working conditions and moronic managers. Yes work is something terrible to be avoided if you have the financial means to avoid working.
I suggest you go and read the Bitcoin thread. Each bitcoin is divided into units called Satoshis. There are 100 million Satoshis in every Bitcoin. You could theoretically buy just one Satoshi if you wanted to although I would not recommend it because of the transaction fees. If you buy even just $300 worth of bitcoin and it will be economical and the percentage transaction fees will be low. On $300 when you include the transaction fees, the slippage (buy sell spread) and the gas fee to transfer it off the exchange onto your hard wallet (you should buy a hard wallet) you could spend in total anywhere from $2 - $12 to buy $300 worth of bitcoin depending on the exchange you use. If you find an exchange at the lower end of the fee spectrum then it’s economical to buy even $300 worth of bitcoin.
Or for example robinhood allows you to buy bitcoin commission free or the strike app allows you to do it with very low commissions.
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If the US dollar crashes then third world currencies (Philippine peso, Colombian Peso, Indonesian Rupees, etc) are going to crash even harder so I don’t see how it would trap you in the USA if anything in that scenario the exchange rate would move in your favour and the U.S. dollar would buy you even more third world currency than what it buys now.
WeBull? Plus doesn’t this assume infinite BTC growth? Passed the 50k, I am thinking about any money I earn extra diversifying. What’s a good % of metal crypto to fiat?
Wouldn’t they stay more stable because of the BRICS? Belt and road initiative. The example I used is the Philippines but from what I understand a good chunk of their economy is remittances so a dollar crash would affect them. It’s coming. If Trump pops off the war with Iran, dollars done.
The sad thing is, I know for a lot of people, and including myself, is if the satanic bastards who ran Wall Street didn't force us back into the office, I would be happy to work from home and continue to be treated like a slave. At least as a slave at home I would have some free time when work slows down, to get errands run, and do other necessary things.
Now they took that away from us, I know a lot of people are quiet quitting. This truly does feel like the Soviet Union during the collapse days. No one cares any more, so many are quiet quitting and learning to live on next to nothing.
What you are missing is the US dollar is the worlds reserve currency. If it goes down it will take most other currencies down with it. I cannot see a scenario where the US dollar crashes and Phillipine Pesos or Mexican pesos, etc are doing well.
BRICs will be successful on trade initiatives but it will struggle on the currency initiatives because none of these countries want to hold major reserves of other BRICs countries. Who would want to own $300 billion dollars worth of South African Rands or Russian Rubles? Sure countries will be open to having a small amount of reserves of other BRICs countries ($10 billion, $30 billion etc) but nobody is going to want these currencies for the core of their reserves. The core will have to be USD, Euros, Gold and Bitcoin. Stuff that is actually liquid and widely accepted.